Rule Changes YOU Should know entering 2024 College Football Season | 10 Second Runoff, 2 Min Warning

this handsome devil next to me is John McDade the sec's coordinator of officials and uh we got to talk uh helmet Communications we got to talk Tech on the sideline you got to you got iPads on the sideline now that's what so before it was coaches yelling about calls now are you ready for coaches to yell at you about their their sideline comms with the quarterback went down yeah how you doing Andy you know I I I'm a I'm a degreed computer science major so uh I can bring my uh technical background from decades ago I haven't practiced any computer engineering and I don't I you used to work for the competition of one of your uh of your new conference partner uh that's correct I used to work for Microsoft but uh yeah the the introduction of Technology two two big uh pieces of Technology under the sideline is the big story this year when we're were talking about uh college football playing rule changes the first is the the the helmet communication you're talking about the same R in the SEC it's the same radio system that they're using on Sundays in the National Football League and it gives a coach and um the ability to talk to one player whether they're on off offense or defense U I believe it gives other coaches the ability to listen in to what's being called but uh that's one of the two big pieces of Technology they're now permissive in the college football uh game so your officials now need to be watching because there can only be are they going to do the Green Dot like the NFL does where they they have to be watching to make sure there's only one Green Green Dot helmet out there that's correct there's a unique green sticker that would be on the back of the helmet of any player that has a radio my understanding is uh our teams in the Southeastern Conference are going to have I think somewhere on the order of four radios for offensive players four radios for defensive players obviously one of them could be on the field at a time and um let's say had you've got some pretty fairly versatile defensive players that have radios and you want to use them on special teams at the same time on the field they're going to have to have a second helmet without a radio in it if one of their teammates also has a radio and they're out on punt return or whatever the case may be John you just made it every Florida fan had have a heart attack because they they watched the Utah game last year with the jerseys now they got to worry about what the helmets to that is correct that is correct geez yeah I mean and and it's interesting because this is the biggest change this year A lot of times you guys are dealing with changes in in the mechanics of the way you call something or or last year it was clock rules this feels completely different yeah it it it absolutely is and and from an you know a true officiating standpoint it's it's a a set of the playing rules a small set of the playing rules that actually falls under what we call uh gain management um purview meaning just like the for years we've had decades we've had headphones on the sidelines and the NCAA football playing rules are very uh specific on how many you can have who can have them so on and so forth but that has always been a game management issue uh we we never have the teams on the sideline saying hey they're using too many uh headphones over there whatever go do something about it yeah the referee that particular game should it heere that from a sideline would just go over to the game manager and said look they filed this complaint can you look into it the only exception with the with the headphones has been if one side goes down we have conference rules ass says let's bring some Equity bring the other sideline down until we resolve the issue the the radio system for Coach toplayer Communications the same thing right the only thing we're really officiating on the field is do we just have one radio on the field at a time other than that it's a game management issue and so the other big change that everybody's going to notice and you corrected me on this cuz I call it the two-minute warning cuz that's what I'm used to on Sundays the two-minute timeout the two-minute timeout and it the mechanics of it are essentially uh exactly what you find in the game on Sundays uh if we have a running clock during the dead ball period and hits two minutes left in the second quarter or the fourth quarter we're going to go ahead and stop it uh if the the uh we hit 2 minutes uh while we're in a live ball play whenever that play ends we're going to stop it just like you see on Sundays and the idea here is that the television partners are going to hold back one of their media timeouts in the second and fourth quarters to use during that two there's definitely going to be commercials during that one you won't be commercials everybody meeting let me let me preempt right here we are not adding an extra media timeout to each half let me repeat that we are not adding immediate timeout um in fact with man has been briefed on the on the talking points you know the television partners that we have with the Southeastern Conference the number of media timeouts that we have in each one of the quarters or duration or whatnot they've already been in contracts that have been uh defined for years before we had this playing Ro change so this is is this a response to the clock rules last year where you know it did it did move a little faster plays were taken out this adds a stopage the the the the creation of the two-minute timeout it I can't think of any way where it's going to address uh game time or the number of plays per game uh in fact it it it's really going to not going to do anything game time you say well we're creating another stoppage the game no we're not we have a television partner that's holding back immedia timeout such that some sometime before the two-minute timeout let's say we have an injury we have a change of possession after a punt they're going to elect to not go to uh it's replacing a 30second timeout or something like that exactly exactly why did we create it I don't I don't pretend to 100% no I wasn't in the room in in Indianapolis when this was discussed but my understanding is that it's twofold the television Partners wanted it for the ability to know when they can use that that last time out and and not have not running into risk where they don't get a chance to use that last mediate timeout right the second is is we do have uh timing real changes that take effect at the end of the half and one of them we instituted last year we are now stopping for a first down inbounds only at under two minutes that's what we did last year right we keep it running in all other aspects and we had it didn't happen in the Southeastern Conference I guess there was a handful of times that happened across the nation in the football B subdivision where a first down was achieved in bounds really close to the two minutes up there and the sidelines didn't know is it going to stop or is it not going to stop uh so this gives you a bright line of this is when you stop the clock with the first down an extremely bright line absolutely yeah I I hadn't even thought about it that way but yes that you have that nice line of demarcation is this before or after the two-minute so you know that's correct now for those that you really understand your playing roles one change it it's not necessarily insignificant but one change to brings on with the two-minute timeout is all of the timing rule changes at the end of the half now sync up to the two-minute uh timeout and one of them is we introduced 10-second runoffs approximately a decade ago right 10-second runoffs were always under one minute left in the second and fourth quarters for certain scenarios 10sec runoffs now are in effect after the two-minute timeout so's a whole this is different there's a whole extra minute of game clock where 10c runoffs are in effect this is the sort of thing Nick Sabin would been noting and making sure absolutely he took advantage of every team every team we we we talk about the quarterback room and every team's quarterback room will have sessions during their August Camp talking about the timing rules and how it affects two-minute offenses at the end of the half this is a new Ringle so what what creates a 10-second runoff again refresh our memory 10-second runoff is any any dead ball foul that stops a running clock including fouls that prevent a snap such as a false start or um um defensive offside where we come across cross the neutral zone and make contact or unabated quarterback so if you are you a team trying to come back from a deficit every second counts now if there's a minute 30 left on the clock you FAL start it's either a 10-second runoff or you use a timeout that is correct um there's also um any kind of illegal pass okay you you you threw a forward pass beyond a line of scrimmage it's the second forward pass um you threw a backwards pass intentionally out of bounds any kind any kind of pass that is incomplete stops the clock that's going to create a 10-second run off situation interesting yeah that that does change things quite a bit because pred some coach is going to go some coach is going to forget and go volcanic when they have that 10-second runoff with like a minute 45 left on the clock I I I'm predict it might happen this year but it'll happen in the first two or three years and I'm saying this with a smirk on my face um somewhere somehow we'll have the same team in the same possession in the same half have two or more 10-second runoffs in that possession I don't remember that ever and when it doesen I bet you we ask ourselves is is that good for the game is that what we want right um I don't know that's an honest question so I know you can't get into specifics on this but I must what are your Sunday mornings like during the season I I go home and I'm up for a while I'm up for a while for for a couple of reasons I I got some paperwork that I have to do um that I'm waiting to come back from the crew so any any crew that's on the game at the end of the day they're going to go back to the hotel have their postgame meeting uh generate this paperwork and I'm waiting for it to come in what am I doing um I used to be watching Pack 12 after dark you know now it's going to be big 10 after dark it's going to be somebody playing after dark right so I'm home I'm doing that paperwork and just like when I was on the field as an official when I step out of our video Center for 13 14 consecutive hours there's a certain amount of adrenaline going through my body I'm not going to fall asleep at any point in time so I I'm thinking about the day thinking about our highlights thinking about our low lights and why do I bring all this up I've digested the day such that when I wake up on Sunday andless someone wants to proactively contact me right I'm taking off till like 1 or two o'clock in the afternoon I'm probably working around the house I'm doing some I'm doing things to take my mind off of what's about to start at about 3:00 or 4 in the afternoon when I go into the office I start crunching through plays that I took notes on the previous day I'll start hearing from teams about the plays they want my comment on that I'll get back to him so we in in the past four years I've been in this position we've had 14 teams in the conference I don't even average one phone call on a Sunday a week really right it's pretty pretty close to one call week but there'll be weeks where I don't get a call and there's not many weeks where I get two now some coaches some coaches like to hear my responses back from the plays that they send in and then maybe that will be get a dialogue a dialogue but um it's not I it it's not as is is pounding on me with a A Hammer as much as you could think now well they do have to keep the relationship solid you know I I have very good relationship with all our head coaches even in those moments where there is a lot of emotion there's a lot of disappointment um and if a Coach is disappointed in something that truly was done wrong you can rest assured I'm disappointed right um at the same time the relationships are they're very fair to me um they're at least professional but they're many many many times beyond that so I you know it's it's there's just I got to go in and turn the crank I have to process what are highlights and low lights and by the way one of the things I'm doing Sunday evenings is I'm getting ready for a 10: a.m. Central Time meeting with commissioner sanki every Monday to go over our highlights and our low lights that's that's one of the things that we do the highlights and and so I got to do the the deal a few years ago where we a bunch of us media folks officiated the the Georgia spring game yes yes and I got torn up in that postgame meeting and deservedly so I missed a intentional grounding call that I should have made and I I made a pass interference call that I shouldn't have made so I deserved it but I'm curious cuz you guys watch film very much like the football players watch film how often are you pointing out hey you did great on this to your officials cuz I they never hear that from the coaches so how often do you guys tell them that so we definitely do it I'm here to tell you that that's not one of my strengths right if if you talk to someone in Corporate America that's in training and development for corporate functions they'll tell you that good training will give an adab boy or at a girl four times more than being critical of the performance right and and I I miss that ratio okay my ratio is probably I'm being kind one to one maybe one and a half to one but we we certainly do it and I I put a training video together every week that the crews will watch in their pregame the successive week that uses plays from that previous week and there's plenty of times where I put on let's let's look at the good job of the iting we did here particularly the examples where it takes two or more officials to to do a good job to make the correct call and I want to you know reinforce teamwork communication exactly this is what we're looking for great job well I will tell you in my limited experience of that it is the hardest job in America and I don't know why anybody does it but God bless you guys for doing it you know I I I I stopped years ago trying to explain why we do it um and in fact I started getting that question a new when I took this position the athletic director is asking John why do you want to be the coordinator of football officials I just I'll just tell you this and I wish you got everyone out there could see my face it's extremely rewarding oh we can see your face you're on camera John McDade thank you so much very good thank you so much for watching just a reminder subscribe to this channel right here so you never miss an episode of Andy Staples on 3 and oh by the way watch 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